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July 1, 2021 at 9:57 pm #62649
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    Xecure wrote:

    It sound similar to this:

    linuxdaddy wrote:

    When I run xorg in 16 bit depth from the xorg.conf file it has the
    menu icons disappearing problem, but when I run in 24 bit depth the
    menu works fine on the vesa driver.

    If you are also running the vesa driver (can be checked with)
    inxi -Gxxx
    …
    …

    The output from that is:

    Graphics:
    Device-1: Neomagic NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV]
    vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: N/A bus ID: 00:04.0
    chip ID: 10c8:0005
    Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: neomagic
    unloaded: fbdev, modesetting, vesa resolution: 800×600~60Hz
    OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6
    compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

    Unfortunately, this sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding other peoples’ experiences of the linux neomagic driver. Apparently, in 24-bit colour mode, there is no hardware acceleration, meaning that scrolling and screen refreshes will be painfully slow.

    The disappearing icons issues only affects the IceWM variants of desktop window managers so I will skirt this issue just by using a different window manager.